Albion Rovers supervisor Brian Reid says his staff might have put League Two leaders Kelty Hearts to the sword - however their efficiency within the 0-0 draw deserves credit score regardless.
The Wee Rovers threatened to shock their guests with Kyle Doherty and Sean Fagan efforts proving to be huge possibilities.
Joe Cardle had the one actual away opening and their case was hit with a blow by Kieran Ngwenya's sending off. He dragged down Charlie Reilly as he was bearing down on the Hearts purpose.
Scott Roberts missed a golden alternative free contained in the field to win the sport for Albion Rovers late on as Reid was made to accept a degree.
A 3-1 victory for the league leaders had performed out at New Central Park final Saturday however boss Kevin Thomson was not capable of get previous Reid's males for a fourth time this time period.
Rovers sit ninth and eight factors above basement membership Cowdenbeath whereas Kelty want a most of eight factors to wrap up League Two.
The Coatbridge boss reckons that a killer contact might have sealed a powerful three factors.
He mentioned: “I believed it was an honest efficiency and to maintain a clear sheet towards Kelty is a credit score to the gamers. We had a fine condition about us and we created loads of possibilities.
“Now we have two or three alternatives and one in all them has to go in. We rating one in all them and we win the sport.
"Anyone on the recreation at Kelty on Saturday would in all probability say we deserved greater than we received from it. We made some poor selections and have been a purpose down after 30 seconds.
"We took confidence from that as they're nicely forward within the league. We have been good all around the park and a degree towards Kelty is not the worst. However we in all probability deserved three factors."
The match at Cliftonhill was delayed by round 10 minutes as a result of a weird mix-up with the Kelty staff sheet. Reid says it did disrupt some early plans.
He defined: "I used to be arising the steps and Dougie Hill was the quantity 4 arising the steps (on the Kelty staff sheet). I used to be questioning in the event that they'd made a change.
"I have a look at the staff sheet and it was completely completely different to what was on the park. It does not assist us as we've got gamers choosing others up.
"That is occurred to us earlier than up at Forfar, the place the staff sheet I received was completely completely different to the staff on the park. So I feel any individual wants a brand new pair of glasses to kind their staff sheets."
Kelty boss Thomson added: "The staff strains have been improper. I might like to let you know why. We needed to go together with a staff that was the staff three weeks in the past. Irritating."
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